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Orlando's musical career started with The Five Gents, a doo-wop group he formed in 1959 at age 15, with whom he recorded demo tapes. He got the attention of music publisher and producer Don Kirshner, who hired him to write songs in an office across from New York's Brill Building, along with Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Toni Wine, Barry Mann, Bobby Darin, Connie Francis, and Tom and Jerry, who ...
Tony Orlando was born Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis on April 3, 1944. [1] Orlando recorded through the 1960s with only moderate chart success. He had three Top 40 hits, two in 1961 and another in 1969 as the lead singer for the studio group Wind.
As Tony Orlando and Dawn "Who's in the Strawberry Patch with Sally" 1973 27 3 15 19 1 — —
"Candida" was the first single released by the American pop music group Dawn, with vocals by Tony Orlando, in July 1970. The song, written by Irwin Levine and Toni Wine, was produced by Dave Appell and Hank Medress for Bell Records. Appell and Medress originally recorded another singer on the track, but decided that a different vocal approach ...
Tony Orlando was born Michael Anthony Orlando Cassavitis on April 3, 1944. [1] After almost a decade of singing and with only three Top 40 hits, two in 1961 and another in 1969 as the lead singer for the studio group Wind, he had not had any further successes. He stopped singing entirely, and by 1970 he was a retired demo singer.
Joyce Vincent Wilson (born Joyce Vincent, [1] December 14, 1946) is an American singer, best known as part of the group Tony Orlando and Dawn. [2] Wilson was later in Former Ladies of the Supremes, despite not being a member of the vocal group, although, she was considered to be the replacement for Mary Wilson of The Supremes in 1977, but with Wilson being the lone original member still in the ...
Candida is a 1970 album by Dawn, a studio session group including Tony Orlando, Toni Wine, and Linda November.Orlando was singing under the group name "Dawn" in order to avoid problems with his contract with his other label, CBS.
Producer Tony Camillo recommended the duo of cousins Telma Hopkins and Joyce Vincent, who expected only a short employment contract as Dawn. The women liked working with Orlando, and after the tour was finished, the three recorded more hit songs as Tony Orlando and Dawn, starting with 1973's "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree". [3]